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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity






2. The value of work performed expressed in terms of the approved budget assigned to that work for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. ALSO BCWP.






3. Group of potential causes of risk. such as technical - external - organizational - environmental - project management. a category may include subcategories






4. Schedule activity that follows a predecessor activity as determined by their logical relationship






5. The process of completing each project procurement






6. System of practices - techniques - procedures and rules used by those who work in a discipline






7. Type of procurement document whereby the buyer requests a potential seller to provide various pieces of information related to a product or service or seller capability






8. Reviewing all change requests - approving changes - and managing changes to the deliverables - organizational process assets - project documents and project management plan






9. Tracking - reviewing - regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan






10. Application of knowledge - skills - tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements






11. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






12. Features and functions that characterize a product - service or result






13. Those processes performed to finalize all activities across all project management process groups to formally close the project or phase






14. Documents and data on prior project including project files - records - correspondence - closed contracts - and closed projects






15. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming component into compliance with requirements or specifications






16. An imperfection or deficiency in a project component where that component does not meet requirements or specifications and needs to be either repaired or replaced






17. Hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units






18. List of project team members - their project roles and communication information






19. Documented direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks






20. Deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables






21. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






22. Information system consisting of tools and techniques to gather - integrate and disseminate the outputs of project management processes.






23. Aggregation of the processes - tools - techniques - methodologies - resources and procedures to manage a project






24. Organizational body or entity assigned various responsibilities related to the centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain.






25. The person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives






26. A diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. it is used when some future scenarios or outcomes of actions are uncertain. it incorporates probabilities and costs






27. A component of work performed during the course of a project






28. An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables (sq. foot in construction - lines of code in software development) to calculate an estimate for activity parameters such as scope - cost - budget






29. Document that specifies in a complete precise verifiable manner the requirements - design behavior or other characteristics of a system component - product - result or service






30. Processes and activities needed to identify - define - combine - unify and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the project management process groups






31. Requirements imposed by a government body. government mandated compliance






32. A quantitative assessment of the likely amount or outcome. usually applied to project costs - resources - effort and durations.






33. Risk response planning technique associated with threats that seeks to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk to below an acceptable threshold






34. Approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources






35. Documenting the actions necessary to define - prepare - integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans






36. Management methodology for integrating scope - schedule and resources and for objectively measuring project performance and progress. performance is measured by determining the budgeted cost of work performed (earned value) and comparing it to the ac






37. Analytical technique used to determine basic underlying reason that causes a variance or defect or risk






38. Structure in which the project manager shares responsibility with the functional managers for assigning priorities and directing the work of persons assigned to the project






39. Processes involved in estimating - budgeting - and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget






40. Document that provides for common and repeated use - rules - guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results






41. Describes each component in the work breakdown structure (WBS). for each WBS component - the WBS dictionary includes a brief definition of the scope of statement of work - defined deliverables - a list of associated activities and list of milestones.






42. Documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers






43. Deliverable that is subject to approval by the project sponsor or customer






44. Analysis. a statistical technique that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. used in decision tree analysis.






45. Something tangible used in performing an activity to produce a product or result






46. A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying or rejecting changes to a project - with all the decisions and recommendations being recorded






47. The smallest unit of time used in scheduling a project. calendar units are generally in hours - days - or weeks - but can also be in quarters years - months - shifts - or even minutes






48. A group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually.






49. Graphic display of schedule related information.






50. Defined function to be performed by a project team member